Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 25, Number 243, Decatur, Adams County, 14 October 1927 — Page 6

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D.C.H.S. PREPARES FOR BASKETBALL Opening Os Ticket Sale Set For Oct. 21; May Cancel Bluffton (James The Catholic high school Cotnodores are going through regular practices in preparation tor the coining nasKetball season. Coach Laurent is <1: llling the players hard in fundamentals. His task of cutting the squad and selecting the players for the regular squad will lie a diffucult one. The interest of the candidates and their faithful training shows that they all mean business. Season tickets for the Commodores games will go on sale October 21. it was announced today. Those who held season tickets last year will be given the privilege of retaining the same seats, provided they place their order for season tickets before October 21. The student season tickets will go on sale immediately. The call for these has exceeded expectations already, which fact assures the Commodores of steady backing from the cheering sections in all of their home games. May Cancel Bluffton Games Father Hession, athletic manager of Decatur Catholic high school, todaystated that a misunderstanding has arisen over the scheduling of two games with Bluffton high school. The local school officials understood that they were scheduling two games with Bluffton’s first team, but the schedules announced by Bluffton yesterday showed that tiie Commodores were booked to meet Bluffton’s second team, or Varsity Red. Father Hession stated that unless Bluffton would rearrange their schedule to give the Commodores games with their first team, the two games would be cancelled or else the Catholic high school second team or St. Joseph eighth grade team would | play the Bluffton Reds as a preliminary to one of the Commodores' games. if tire two Bluftton games on the Commodores schedule are cancelled two more games will be scheduled tc fill their open dates. Negotiations are under way with the Bluffton school officials. Auburn H. S. Basketball Schedule Is Announced Auburn, Oct. 14 —The schedule for the Auburn high school basketball team is as follows: November 4. Waterloo here; November 11, Albion there; November IS. Ashley there; November 23, Decatur here; December 2. Butler here; December 3, Lagrange there; December 9 Angola there; December 10, Bluffton here; December Iti, Garrett, there; December 23, Kendallville, here; January 6. Decatur there; January 13 Kendallville here; January 20, North side, Fort Wayne, here; January 21. Columbia City there; January 27-28, county tournament; February 3, Albion there; February 4, Central of Fort Wayne, here; February 10, Angola here; February 17, Freemont there; February 24, Lagrange here. o Delaney To Meet Jack Renault This Evening New York, Oct. 14—(INS)—What may be termed the inaugural of the 1927-28 series of heavyweight championship eliminations will be staged tonight at Madison Square Garden when Jack Delaney meets Jack Renault in a Ten-Round bout. Delaney is favored to win, but not by a knockout. Renault is extremely hard to hit when he is hurt and knows as many defensive tricks as any man in the ring to day. o Chicago Ready For Game With Purdue Chicago, Oct. 14—(INS)—As close to perfection as any Chicago Eleven has been in recent years, the Maroons tapered off today for the crucial game with Purdue tomorrow at Stagg Field. The Chicago offensive has been bolstered up dining the week and a system aimed to check the Phelan air play has been perfected. o Purdue Fullback Out Os Lineup For Saturday Lafayette, Ind., Oct. 14—(INS)—The Purdue football Squad, thirty-five strong, depai ted today tor Chicago in! charge of head coach Jimmy Phelan. I

I. IT. Freshman Has Brother On Notre Dame Football earn, But He Is Pulling For The Scrappin* Hoosiers To Win Game

" Bloomington, Ind., Oct. 14 -(UP) — When Coach Knute Rockne’s fighting | Irish from Notre Dame invade the Indiana University giidhon here Saturday Oct. 22, two brothers will be in attendance one an enthusiastic spectator fiom Indiana I’niverslty the s other cne of Rockne’s fastest quartern backs. 11 The brothers uro Leonard and Chare les Riley. When the whistle sounds for k the fiist kick-off of the game, Leonard ■ will be in the 1. U. stands rooting for >■ the Hoosiers and Charles will be call- ■ ing signals the Irish. ’ I Leonard has no desire to play foot- | ball, however, although he likes to sit back and look on. He champions t boxing and is out for Indiana's freshI man squad. i Len is wondering how the family ■ will divide an expresses his hope that

with one exception the same team that , defeated Harvard a week ago will take .j he field against Stagg s Maroons. ■ Either Glen Harmescn or Albert Guth- , rie wil play Tony Leichtle's position at fullback. Leichtle was injured in the Eastern game. — o Northwestern Works Out In Ohio State Stadium Columbus. Ohio., Oct. 14—(INS) — Quartered on the outskirts of the city the Northwestern university eleven that faces Ohio Sate tomorrow limbered up on Stadium Field today after the long train ride from Evanston. 111. Tiny Lewis, stellar backfield performer who has reported to have contracted pneumonia, was in uniform and will be in the starting lineup. Babe Ruth Believes In Collecting Money Before His Exhibitions Asbury Park, N. J.. Oct. 14.—(INS) —Babe Ruth puts bush, ess ahead o.f baseball—in exhibition games, at least. Before starting play against I the Brooklyn Royal Giants here. Ruth insisted upon collecting a guarantee of $2,500, holding up the game an hour while 7,000 fans hooted and yelled. Lou Gehrig, the Babe’s partner, broke up the game wild his second homer, then several thousand youngsters broke it up permanently by swarming on the field and stealing the team's thirty-sixth and last baseball. o Page Gives Blackboard Drill To Hoosier Team Bloomington, Ind., Oct. 14—(INS)— With the Minnesota team quartered but twenty-live miles away, Pat Page, coach of the Indiana University eleven decided on a blackboard drill today instead of a workout in the stadium for the homecoming game tomorrow. o THE “RIGHT WAY” IS POINTED OUT (CONTIM’ED FROM PAGE ONE) church program. The Junior Choir rendered a special song and a chorus, greatly to the pleasure of the audience. They aie meeting each evening after school for practice. There will be a meeting Saturday evening at 7:15 o’clock the same hour the meeting begins tonight. Sunday is the annual Rally Day in the Sunday school and the school has set as its goal an attendance of not less than 300. Last year, the goal was 250 and was met; this year it ought to be easy to exceed the 300 mark. By special letter the membership is urged to bling some one who is not attending church elswheie. Mrs. T, ibbett will preach at the Sunday morning services, following the Bible school session. She will also preach in the afternoon at 2:30 o’clock and in the evening at 7 o'clock. In the latter two services, opportunity will be given for the sick to be prayed for. The interest in these meetings is growing and it is believed this meeting will prove of inestimable good to the chui ch. Doubtless, there will be meetings during the coming weeks this will be announced later. Genttui A genius is a man who keeps on doing snod work even after he has i " " j reputation enough to get by with I sorry work. tft

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I some of them will be pulling for In- ' di.'ina, but gays "Mother and Dad’’ pro. ’ I bably will remain neutral. ■ He rarely mentions his relationship 1 ' or brags about his brother for "Char- • ley wouldn't want me to boast about ’ ■ him. He isn't Riat sort, just takes foot- • ball as a matter of fact and in letters i home, never mentions his playing. Charles played three years in high ■ school at half and on the Cathedral I high school eleven in Indianapolis, where the Riley family lives, he held •i state record for scoring in every j game in which he participated. "Charles did not go to Notre Dame 1 ' to play football. No Notre Dame alum--1; ni influenced his choice of schools •He knew hardly a thing about the | game until he entered high school.' ■ i Len said, "but I'm attending Indiana. I and am pulling for her," he insisted .

FINE PROGRAM FOR CONVENTION (COXTIXI EIJ FROM PAGE OXE) | — . gram will be practical and will tend to show the teachers and pupils how more can be obtained from the Sunday I morning services. A banquet for all attending the convention will be held Wednesday night, at 6 o'clock, at the Methodist church. | Reservations for the banquet can be made with John E. Nelson, county clerk, atty time up until Tuesday night. Tickets for the banquet will sell for 50 cents, and all interested persons are invited to attend. All committees in charge of preconvention arrangements report their work complete, and the attendance committee reports that the Reformed church will be filled at every session. ! The public is invited to attend all the meetings, and good lectures and in- . structive talks are anticipated. —— o STORY OF MISS ELDER’S RESCUE — - I -/wyo aovd uoji.t aa.iKixKoo) 3G hours, 26 minutes—only about 15 hours less than the longest sustained Light ever made. And that record was set not in storm and over sea, but, under ideal conditions, circling at low speed over a flying field. They are estimated to have flown 3.500 miles or more—a distance which would have enabled them to land on the French mainland, had they not been blown from their course. They blazed a new trail, for their route led straight out to sea front New York 1,200 miles and then picked up a "great circle’’ course, sweeping in an arc towards France, The point where the plane alighted is computed as about 500 miles northeast of the Azores Islands, exactly on the circle course Miss Elder was to have followed. The news thrilled two continents. In England and France people!

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'cheered the word that the American girl flyer had escaped the fate of the only other women who have attempt . ed overseas aviation - Miss Mlhltcd Doran, lost enroute to Honolulu, and the Princess Lowenstein-Wertheim, lost flying.to New York from England in the airplane, St. Raphael. | But it was in the United States that it brought the greatest joy. | Exactly what Miss Elder’s immed-, late plans may be, remained indefinite. Presumably she hardly knows herself. Her first task is to get ashore. Then, when she lands in the Azores, she either can return to the United States or go on to Paris. Husband Overjoyed Balboa, Canal Zone, Oct. 14 —(INS) Lyle Womack, husband of Ruth , Elder, the daring trans-Atlantic aviatr x who was rescued at sea yesterday after her plane had been fore- . ed down in the ocean, today was awaiting further word from Jiis wife before deciding whether to sail to ( the United States to meet her or twait her arrival here. Womack was here visiting his parents. He received a message from his wife after a sleepless night mid lay of haunting the cable office for tews of her. "I’ve been through seventeen hells” he said, ’’but now I am the happiest man in the world. "I have cabled my love to the bravest girl in the world. . “We expect to live in the canal tone when Ruth gets back but 1 will probably go to New York to meet her and accompany her here. "I ant sorry she did not make Paris. I was behind her attempt a thousand percent." —o— Nothing Beyond Her Any woman who can get the rolls and the gravy and the roast and the potatoes and the coffee till on the table steaming hot nt tin- same time, and then get all the family there, too, can succeed at anything.—Atchison Globe. Ancient Dentistry On? ituthe-ity says * ■•)! there ntevidences tb-r at nn earlier date than 500 i». C. (which marks the first reference to dentistry) the Egyptians and Hindus attempted to replace lost teeth 1 by attaching wood or ivory substitutes 1 to adjacent -ound teeth oy means of threads or wires. AvTer Al . \ VOR A LOT OF US IT’S All IM A DAY’S \ * SHIRK > yy I 2A3L i ! QWW I • i BOSTONIAN SHOES FOR MEN Jotut-T-Mvm & Sc*n ! /ciOtmixo Jp.o S« Ors / t X*. s>A.x a.w” aj

Bertha Almandinger of gchuinm, underwent a major operation. Thursday at the Adams County Memorial

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